LINDA H. POST FINE ART

I usually have a fairly clear image in my head of where I want a painting to go. Of course, there are days when I stand in front of the...

In my last post, I wrote about the architecture of a painting - and specifically the very complicated Victorian gazebo that anchors the...

Painting people is what I love. The architecture of the painting is what makes them real. As much as I want to get deep into the flesh,...

Each of the characters in this painting has at least one bird companion. From a pink flamingo, a feathered mask, a seagull ruffled by the...

The underpainting is so important. The interesting part is that what you're painting isn't quite the vision in your head. It is basically...

It's always exciting to begin a new painting. Solidifying the concept can often take months. This new one combines many of the ideas,...

Remember the unfinished painting that my solo exhibit at R. Michelson Galleries, The Willing Suspension of Disbelief, was organized...

My latest exhibit, "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief", opened on April 25 in the big, sunlit upstairs gallery space at R. Michelson...

April 25 - May 15. A solo show highlighting the new painting, "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief", plus a selection of work from the...

Sometimes less is more, and that was my thought about all the pink/ alizarin crimson/ cadmium tones in this painting, "The Willing...

I think of spring as a time of renewal, don't you? This painting has been on my wall for quite some time. I want to take it down and...

When I get to this point in a painting, it's time for me to decide where the boundaries of the finished painting will be. Since the...

This painting has been fleshing itself out (seriously, I've been working on some of the flesh) and I now have a working title. It's "A...

The sky is still red. In order to create the sky-blue-pink I see in my head, it's important to work on everything that juxtaposes it....

I often come back to the same models when I think about a new painting. (Not the birds. I always choose new birds.) After quite some time...

I started thinking about this painting - actually, dreaming it - last winter, in January. I didn't draw it onto canvas until almost May....

In my last post, I wrote about the raven in this painting. It's been interesting giving personality to seagulls in many of my recent...

It's time for a breather. I've been working on big projects for the past few years, paintings that can take a year to complete. The most...

Nothing ever goes exactly the way you plan it. It is SUCH a large painting, difficult to measure accurately, and eventually we had to take t

This painting is ready to come off the wall. It looks like it will be about 6 1/2 feet by 7 1/2 feet. Once the final dimensions are...